The Holocaust Books

Combines personal accounts with insights from psychology to understand the continuing impact of Holocaust trauma in Lithuania.A Survivor Named Trauma examines the nature of trauma and memory as they relate to the Holocaust in Lithuania. How do we behave...

Critically assesses the experiences of men in the Holocaust.

Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.

Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them.What does it mean to read, and to teach, Jewish American and Holocaust literatures in the early decades of the twenty-first century? New...

Demonstrates how four books by dissident German intellectuals served as a rebuke to the Nazi regime.

A History Of The Great War, 1914-: The Genesis Of The War, June, 1914 To August, 1915 (1916) is a comprehensive account of the events leading up to the First World War and the initial stages of the conflict. Written by Davenport and Briggs, the book...

How do otherwise decent people become mesmerized by a doctrine of hate? How can its grip be broken? In seeking answers to these pressing questions for our times, Barbara Leimsner confronts the past to discover how one ordinary man-her adored German...

<p><em>My Story, My Voice</em> was written by Femma Mahdessian Slap, a Dutch Jewish Holocaust survivor who died in 2020. English was her second language. The short stories contained in this book came from her heart. She didn't want them...

"A captivating book rooted in first-rate research." -- New York Times Book ReviewNew York Times bestseller -- Espionage categoryFor the first time, once-secret government records and interviews tell the full story of the thousands of...

How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations-whether literary or photographic? How has the Holocaust registered in our increasingly globally connected consciousness? What does it mean that this European event is often used as an...

This book is the first to provide a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory. Its main arguments are that the...

Elisabeth "Ilse" Seger was the wife of Gerhart Heinrich Seger, a German Social Democratic member of the Reichstag from 1930 to 1933. He was reelected for the last time on March 5, 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power. A week later, the Nazis arrested...

Una historia brutal y honesta de supervivencia y resiliencia humana durante la Segunda Guerra MundialManny Steinberg (1925-2015) pasó su adolescencia en los campos de concentración de la Alemania nazi, y, milagrosamente, sobrevivió a lo que mató a...

O Diário de Anne Frank, publicado originalmente em 1947, se tornou um dos relatos mais impressionantes das atrocidades e horrores cometidos contra os judeus durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. A força da narrativa desta adolescente - que mesmo com sua...

Der Band behandelt exemplarisch die Mitwirkung der deutschen Privatwirtschaft an der nationalsozialistischen Vernichtungspolitik. Im Mittelpunkt stehen das Engagement des IG Farben-Konzerns in der Nachbarschaft von Auschwitz und das in Zusammenarbeit mit...

Unmittelbar nach der Befreiung der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager im Frühjahr 1945 entstanden Fotografien, die Berge von Leichen zeigen, Massengräber, halbverhungerte Überlebende auf Pritschen oder hinter Stacheldraht. Seit ihrer ersten...

Growing up in a family of Holocaust survivors, Joan Haahr was aware from an early age of the devastation wrought by the Nazis and their sympathizers on Europe's Jewish population during the Holocaust. She also witnessed firsthand the dysfunctions that...

Far from the image of an apolitical, "clean" Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organizations like the SS in the abuse and murder of countless individuals during the Second World War. This in-depth study...

Dr Peter Kraus is a retired obstetrician-gynaecologist. He is a child survivor of the Holocaust who migrated to Australia with his parents and brother in 1948. Slow Train to Auschwitz traces his family history, giving a glimpse of Jewish life in Eastern...

Most people associate concentration camps with Nazi Germany. Behind Barbed Wire examines how these notorious World War II camps actually reflected a previous use of the system, a system that began almost a century earlier. In truth, Adolf Hitler had...

In 1933 Johann Trollmann won Germany's light-heavyweight boxing title. The Nazis would not accept him as the winner because he was Sinto. Many Sinti and Roma (or "Gypsies") had long been involved in the sport, but Nazi ideology demanded that only Aryans...

Did we "know" the gas chambers were there? Could we have destroyed them? Why didn't we bomb? For decades, debate has raged over whether the Allies should have bombed the gas chambers at Auschwitz and the railroads leading to the camp, thereby saving...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Holocaust-Studien, Note: 1,3, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1.EinleitungDer Holocaust markiert die katastrophale Zuspitzung der...

In 1803, President Jefferson said to James Monroe, To France you must go: To try and help our country grow. To purchase New Orleans is what he would try, But the whole Louisiana territory he was able to buy. This is only a sample of what you will enjoy...

This book shows history in the making with the German and Soviet forces of World War II cooperating and then competing  in the invasion and occupation of  Sokoly Poland. The reader can understand the stages through which the Nazi rule...

The Dobrzyn-Golub Yizkor Book evokes both pleasure and pain: pleasure from the nostalgic accounts by the Dobrzyn Jews who emigrated before World War II, and pain from the narratives describing the destruction of all traces of the town’s rich Jewish...

Often when we study the Holocaust the focus is on how Jewish life ended – the restrictions, the round ups, the ghettoizations, the transports, the deaths. But how much do we know about how these communities lived? Who were their members, their...

As a small boy, Pieter Kohnstam lived with his parents in an apartment in Amsterdam during World War II. By coincidence, one of their neighbors was the Frank family, including Anne Frank, who became Pieter's sometime babysitter and playmate. When the...

On 13 November 1943, Jerzy Feliks Urman (known as Jerzyk) killed himself, thinking the Gestapo had arrived. He was eleven and a half. He and his family were in hiding in Drohobycz, during the German occupation of East Galicia, now western Ukraine. A year...

“They don’t need a reason to shoot people.” Sophie Stach Virgilio heard that repeatedly before she was three. When Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939, she was almost a year old. During those years of Nazi occupation, she lived on a...

Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust argues that humor performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. Co-editors David Slucki, Gabriel N. Finder, and Avinoam Patt have assembled an impressive list of contributors who examine...

This interdisciplinary text brings together perspectives from leading psychoanalysts and modern Jewish philosophers to offer a unique investigation into the dynamic between the fundamental trust in the self, other persons, and the world, and the...

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide explores the many and sometimes complicated ways in which religion, faith, doctrine, and practice intersect in societies where mass atrocity and genocide occur.This volume is intended as an...

Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs lebten etwa 4.500 Juden spanischer Staatsangehörigkeit im deutschen Machtbereich. Bis 1942 waren sie wie andere ausländische Juden von den Deportationen in die Todeslager ausgenommen. Himmler und Eichmann drängten aber...

This is the English translation of the memorial book of the destroyed Jewish Communities of Miechov, Charsznica and Ksiaz, PolandThis book contains first-hand descriptions of the rich life in these Jewish communities before the Shoah and eye-witness...

George Moshe Stein was a Jewish young man growing up with his family in the village of Oradea in Romania. In 1942 the scourge of Nazisim came to them and upturned their lives and aspirations forever. Initially forced into an unbearable ghetto, the family...

There was great joy in the Przepiorka home in Wegrow when Mendl and Esther welcomed their little princess, Gitele, born after two boy siblings already nine and twelve years old. It was spring of 1939, but the bliss was short-lived. When Gitele was three...

This study probes the American religious press between 1943 and 1945 to determine what was reported about Nazi death camps. Catholic and Protestant periodicals between 1945 and 1949 are also examined to evaluate the impact that the Holocaust had on the...

A book composed of letters written over seventy years ago from a mother in Amsterdam to her daughter in London, via an intermediary in Geneva, with the inclusion of copies of the official Red Cross Cards.Through this one sided correspondence we...

Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto.